Bits and Bytes

In the last week, with whatever little time I got to myself … you know, after work and binge-watching all episodes of “Black Mirror” , Youtube videos and playing my new PS4 … I decided to write a little command-line tool called ckandr.

Let me back off a little bit and explain WHY I needed to write this tool in the first place:

Firstly, for geeks like me, for every Web application out there, we need a command-line counterpart … just for the heck of it. In my case, I was looking for a command line tool to correspond with CoinMarketCap and BitCoinRates

In a few clicks I actually found a command-line tool for CoinMarketCap. It’s called coinmon and soon I even found it’s improvised port in Python, pycoinmon. I have no qualms in admitting that these two have been the major inspiration behind ckandr. But both these got Cryptocurrency rates only from the international market based out of USD.

In case of BitCoinRates, it shows prices only for Bitcoin and not for other Altcoins.

I had noticed that atleast a few Indian cryptocurrency exchanges had a link to the API for their price ticker.